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Description: An addition to the Union Temple on Eastern Parkway that was never built.
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Subject: Architecture, Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2008, 2008 December 23
Description: Buildings that were moved in Brooklyn, in particular the Lefferts Homestead, moved by Thatcher & Sons and documented in the Brooklyn Collection's Thatcher Collection.
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Subject: Architecture, Prints Collection, People, Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 February 19
Description: The history of the debate over the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, and the bridge that the Brooklyn Eagle thought should have been built instead.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Transportation, Urban Development
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 June 11
Description: Author talks on Suleiman Osman's The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York and Tamara Mose Brown's Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare and Caribbeans Creating Community.
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Subject: Events, Children, Urban Development , Women, Immigration
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 March 21, 2011
Description: A book talk by Suleiman Osman.
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Subject: Events, Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 May 2, 2011
Description: The question of whether Brooklyn should have a centralized terminal for traveling to area airports.
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Subject: Transportation, Urban Development
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2011 June 23, 2011
Description: Students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation Planning talk about their research uncovering the rich architectural history of Bushwick Avenue, and the preservation plan they produced as a result.
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Subject: Events, Architecture, Bushwick, Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 October 20, 2011
Description: The Mount Prospect Reservoir next to the site of what is now Central Library.
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Subject: Library history, Urban Development
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 September 13, 2012
Description: Brooklyn urban planner Charles Downing Lay, the original designer of Marine Park, for which he won a silver medal in town planning at the 1936 Olympic Games.
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Subject: People, Urban Development
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2014 February 19, 2014
Description: As part of Brooklyn Transitions, a series of programs and events about neighborhood change, the Brooklyn Collection presents the film "Battle for Brooklyn,” a documentary about the Atlantic Yards project, the development plan that created the Barclay's Center.
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Subject: Events, Film, Urban Development
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2015 January 23, 2015
Description: A history of the statue of Ulysses S. Grant at the intersection of Bedford Avenue and Dean Street.
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Subject: War, Arts, Urban Development
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 August 6, 2015
Description: The Miss Manhattan and Miss Brooklyn statues that used to stand at the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan bridge, and the new replicas that have been placed there.
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Subject: Arts, Urban Development
Creator: Alla Roylance
Date: 2017 April 4, 2017
Description: Guest post. Photographer Larry Racioppo shares images of Prospect Park and stories of he and his family spending time there over five decades.
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Subject: Prospect Park, Photography, Urban Development
Creator: Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017 May 5, 2017
Description: The Kings County Elevated Railway and its main line, popularly known as the Fulton Street “L”, rattled along Fulton Street for more than half a century. Trains originally operated by steam, and later converted to electric between the late 1890s and early 1900s.
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Subject: Transportation, Photo of the Week, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 June 8, 2021
Description: The photograph above documents sidewalk conditions in 1915 in advance of subway construction, but also provides evidence of an impressive hotel and cafe that once stood at the southeast corner of Willoughby and Pearl Streets in downtown Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photographs, Photo of the Week, Urban Development
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 July 5, 2021
Description: In the late 19th century housing conditions for the poor in Brooklyn were crowded, unsafe, poorly ventilated, and lacked amenities. Today's Photo of the Week shows one of the first efforts in our borough to create affordable and pleasant housing for those who struggled to pay the rent.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Housing, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 August 4, 2021
Description: It's difficult to picture from where we're standing, but until the 1920s, significant portions of southern Brooklyn were still farmland.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Urban Development
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 October 25
Description: On October 10, 1885 the ground in Princeton, New Jersey shook. There was no great earthquake. It was, instead, the largest planned detonation prior to the atomic bomb. In order to clear obstacles from Hell Gate - a narrow tidal strait in the East River -- and free up ship traffic the US Army Corp of Engineers started blowing up several obstructions in the waters.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Industry, Urban Development
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 January 17, 2022
Description: In 1983, the Cooper Square Committee called for a new plan, the details of which were published in The Cooper Square Plan: Report for Discussion, October 15, 1986, part of the Ronald Schiffman Collection on the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Urban Development , Architecture, Events
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 March 21, 2022
Description: A brief history of the Eberhard Faber pencil company, at one time headquartered in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Industry, Urban Development
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 April 1, 2022
Description: Comparing a clairvoyant's 1848 predictions for Brooklyn's future with the present day.
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Subject: Urban Development
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 April 3, 2023
Description: The photo of the week depicts a view of Fulton Street, including the Majestic Theater, in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1959.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Theaters, Urban Development
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2024 January 8, 2024
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